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"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2012

Herausgeber

Jason Colavito

Verlag

McFarland

Seitenzahl

386

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/2,3 cm

Gewicht

625 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7864-6909-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2012

Herausgeber

Jason Colavito

Verlag

McFarland

Seitenzahl

386

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/2,3 cm

Gewicht

625 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7864-6909-3

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: "A Hideous Bit of Morbidity"
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction      1
    A Note on the Text      11

    1. FEAR, TERROR, AND THE SUPERNATURAL     
    On the Words for "Fear" in Certain Languages:
    A Study in Linguistic Psychology
    Alex F. Chamberlain      13
    Excerpt from On the Sublime and Beautiful
    Edmund Burke      18
    On the Pleasure of Writing Dismal Stories,
    Exciting Surprize and Horror
    Daniel Defoe      22
    Excerpt from "The Prodigal and His Brother"
    Frederick W. Robertson      25
    The Dread of the Supernatural
    The Spectator     
    Gothic Horror
    Lafcadio Hearn      31

    2. THE GOTHICS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS     
    Excerpt from The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction
    Edward Yardley      37
    Excerpt from "On Gothic Superstition"
    Nathan Drake      41
    Excerpt from a Review of Literary Hours
    by Nathan Drake The Monthly Review     
    Introductory Dialogue to Tales of Terror
    Matthew Lewis (attributed)     
    Excerpt from "The Revival of Romance"
    Walter Raleigh      53
    The School of Terror
    Thomas E. Rankin and Wilford M. Aikin      58
    Fiction in the Romantic Movement
    William Allen Neilson      59
    Excerpt from "Mrs. Ann Radcliffe"
    Sir Walter Scott      60
    Excerpt from "Fragments of an Unpublished Manuscript"
    Adam Eagle (Fitz-James O'Brien)     
    Letter to William Godwin
    Charles Lamb      66
    Introduction to Ghost Stories
    Rudolph Ackermann      67
    A Tale for a Chimney-Corner
    Leigh Hunt      68
    Excerpt from "A Letter from Geneva"
    John Polidori      77
    Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
    Sir Walter Scott      79
    Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
    John Croker      93
    Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
    The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany     
    Review of Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein
    The London Magazine     
    Excerpt from "Mrs. Shelley"
    R. H. Horne      99
    Letter Denying Authorship of The Vampire
    Lord Byron      103
    Excerpt from "Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell"
    Peter Bayne      105

    3. POE AND HIS SUCCESSORS     
    Excerpt from "Later German Romanticism"
    George H. Danton      108
    The Origins of Hawthorne and
    Paul Elmer More      110
    Edgar Allan
    Robert Chambers      122
    Excerpt from "Edgar Allan Poe"
    James Russell Lowell      126
    Review of The Raven and Other Poems
    The Knickerbocker     
    Poe: Lack of Substance
    W. C. Brownell      132
    Poe's Fixing of the Short-Story Form
    Charles Sears Baldwin      138
    Fitz-James O'Brien
    Charles Sears Baldwin      144
    Excerpt from "The Mid-Century in America"
    Henry Seidel Canby      145
    Maupassant and
    Frederic Rowland Marvin      148
    Advertisement for Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
    American Publishers      152
    Excerpt from "Ambrose Bierce: An Appraisal"
    Frederic Taber Cooper      152
    Bierce: Satire, Romance, Philosophy
    Edwin Markham      158
    Table of Contents vii
    Excerpt from "The Short Story"
    Fred Lewis Pattee      160
    Excerpt from "Concerning Irvin Cobb"
    The Bookman     

    4. MONSTERS OF THE GILDED AGE     
    The Physiology of "Penny Awfuls"
    The London Hermit (Walter Parke)      164
    Review of The Purcell Papers by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    The Saturday Review     
    Excerpt from "Concerning Tea"
    E. V. Lucas      183
    Excerpt from "The New Gallery"
    J. Charles Cox      185
    The Religion of Robert Louis Stevenson
    W. J. Dawson      187
    Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    The Dublin Review     
    Excerpt from "Novelists' Law"
    Alfred Bailey      195
    The Secret
    The New York Herald Tribune     
    Excerpt from "Richard Mansfield"
    William Henry Frost      199
    Excerpt from "R. L. Stevenson"
    Richard Le Gallienne      200
    Excerpt from "Our Library List"
    Murray's Magazine     
    Review of Dracula
    Baron de Book-Worms      201
    Supped Full with Horrors
    Charles F. Lummis      202
    Review of Dracula
    The Literary World     
    Excerpt from "Open Questions:
    Talks with Correspondents"
    Current Literature     
    Excerpt from Human Sexuality
    J. Richardson Parke      205
    Letter to Julian Hawthorne
    Edmund Clarence Stedman      206
    Excerpt from Modern Vampirism
    A. Osborne Eaves      207
    Frankenstein
    The Bookman     

    5. FIN DE SIÈCLE SCIENCE, DETECTION, AND TERROR     
    Excerpt from "Fictions of the Future"
    The Dublin Review     
    Review of The Island of Dr      Moreau
    The Baron de Book-Worms      211
    Review of The Invisible
    William Morton Payne      214
    Excerpt from "Love, War and Pseudo-science"
    William Lyon Phelps      215
    Mr. Wells's War of the Worlds
    Clement Shorter      215
    Review of The War of the Worlds
    William Morton Payne      218
    Excerpt from The Technique of the Mystery Story
    Carolyn Wells      219
    Review of My Friend the Murderer
    The Literary World     
    Excerpt from "Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles"
    Arthur Bartlett Maurice      221
    Curiosity and Horror in the Theatre
    Arthur Bingham Walkley      223
    Review of The Three Imposters
    The Bookman     
    Review of The Great God
    Richard Henry Stoddard      228
    The Gospel of Intensity
    Harry Quilter      230
    Excerpt from "Oscar Wilde"
    A. Edward Newton      255
    Art and Luxury
    Ramiro de Maetzu      257

    6. GHOSTS AND KINDRED HORRORS     
    Excerpt from "A Study of Individual Psychology"
    Caroline Miles      265
    The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction
    Lafcadio Hearn      267
    Some Japanese Bogie-Books
    Andrew Lang      279
    Ghost Stories
    W. F. Dawson      292
    Excerpt from "Books of the Christmas Season"
    Noah Brooks      294
    Two Volumes from Henry James
    Henry Wysham Lanier      295
    Excerpt from "Gillette"
    Amy Leslie      297
    Excerpt from "Chronicle and Comment"
    The Bookman     
    Review of The King in Yellow
    The Literary World     
    Review of The Wind in the Rose Bush
    The Literary World     
    Mr. Morris's "The Footprint"
    Ward Clark      301
    Algernon Blackwood-An Appreciation
    Grace Isabel Colbron      303
    Robert Hichens
    Frederic Taber Cooper      307
    The Creeps
    H. D. Traill      324
    The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction
    Olivia Howard Dunbar      329

    7. TOWARD A HORROR GENRE     
    The Supernatural in Fiction
    Andrew Lang      337
    The Abuse of the Supernatural in Fiction
    Edmund Gosse      342
    Review of The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
    Montague Summers      350
    Excerpt from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
    Dorothy Scarborough      356

    Appendix: Timeline of Major Works of Horror     
    Index